While it may be a misfortune for him, it's a win for all of us and the legal system as a whole. I don't call that schadenfreude. I call it reason to celebrate!
LOL! The very idea of using wine to run things on windows is so absurd....
On a side note, I'd just like to point out that every major release of Mac OS (Tiger, Leopard, etc.) usually includes a minor update to the previous major release (see also: Mac OS 10.3.9 and Tiger) so that the old version is compatible with new apps that use the new version. Obviously there comes a certain point where apps just don't work anymore, but my point is that the once-per-year release cycle of Mac OS is a lot friendlier to this kind of use and this kind of development. It's MUCH easier for software devs to make minor changes to their apps for the little bumps in the road than it is for them to prepare major releases for the huuuuuuge and largely mysterious windows releases that happen only once in a blue moon (but are supposed to happen sooner). Not being (too much of) a fanboy; I'm just saying....
I dunno if this is a New Coke fiasco and they've got something up their sleeve or if this is a genuine fsck-up, but the whole Vista saga is just so sad....
yes that sounds right. The contacts could be a sort of chicken/egg thing though. In the spirit of Slashdot groupthink I'm inclined to give the man the benefit of the doubt and think maybe he just saw the light. In any case he's very critical of Greenpeace's methods nowadays and I can agree with that. What started as saving the whales has now devolved into a propaganda war against any "unnatural" technology no matter how many lives it might improve or even save. See also: GM foods. Do you really think starving African children care that golden rice was developed in a lab and not in nature? Think how many people could be fed if Greenpeace didnt keep lieing to governments about the dangers of GM grains....
I find it interesting that a couple of years ago one of the original founders of Greenpeace stepped forward in favour of nuclear power as an alternative to coal.
You said it! Why is this even a congressional issue at all? I really hate how absolutely everything under the sun has suddenly become the purview of Congress under the guise of regulating interstate commerce.
The ESRB is the industry's attempt at self-regulation, and for right now it doesn't include the beaurocracy of Congress and that's a Good Thing(tm). Congress, on the other hand, is like King Midas, except everything they touch turns to red tape. I find it interesting that the same people who want to privatize everything are the ones who are freaking out about this. Why not just, as parents, pay attention to what your children are playing? If you've got a young child (like pre-high school), why would you buy them a game called "Manhunt" at all?
He said the human brain, which is comprised of millions and millions of neurons. Neurons themselves are pretty useless but put enough of them in one place, connected and pathed out over years and years of learning and practice, and they're a lot smarter than a hive of bees.
where companies are paid big money to edit out smoking in classic films, because it isn't appropriate anymore.
Or the episode of South Park where George Lucas and Steven Spielberg kept altering their movies, notably editing out all the guns and replacing them with walkie talkies in E.T..
was it snow crash?
I don't think so...?
The more I read in this thread the more depressed I get. Sesame Street was already kind of in decline, from what I understand, by the time I was born ('83), but it was still a huge part of my childhood. I'd like to think that even though I saw cookie monster gorging on cookies and Oscar the Grouch living in a trash can, I've turned out okay.
I disagree with the idea that gambling is somehow immoral
But don't you know? It's one of the seven deadly sins: avarice. Gambling is seen by those who are religiously inclined as an attempt to predict the acts of God.
Seriously though I agree wholeheartedly. This could not be a moral issue or even a practical issue since there are so many common practices here that involve the same basic business of trying to determine the future for personal gain or personal protection (in the case of insurance). The only purpose of this bill is to ensure that the state gets a cut (by way of taxes) for all gambling that occurs in the state. This includes state-sponsored lotteries, and it's the reason why you can't run a good numbers racket in this decaying republic anymore.
Disclaimer: I make my living through online gambling.
You chicken shit sons (and daughter) - of - bitches!
I'm glad someone else had the balls to say that. This isn't the usual sort of grey area political issue that you can see one way or another pretty easily: it's black and white. On one side of that border is a runaway executive branch that has completely forgotten all their responsibilities to the citizens of the United States, the Constitution, and the whole world. On the other side is a population of people who are scared shitless and doesn't even know why anymore.
When the telcos acquiesced to the government's illegal demands, they should have known that it was illegal, and even the government has to play by the rules until they make new ones. They deserve no immunity and neither do the people who ordered this.
Are you in the US? President Carter issued an executive order during his term prohibiting recycling or reuse of nuclear fuel. It sounds pretty stupid but at the time his reasoning was that it would limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Another executive order reversing that one would be really nice, seeing as countries like France have developed very effective methods for recycling their waste.
You should read some of the books Frank Lloyd Wright wrote. Can't find a link for you on Amazon but he wrote a couple of books in which he really breaks down a lot of his design decisions and, at least for a lot of his houses, he did take a lot of engineering questions into account that were genuinely ahead of his time. In particular, there's a house here in Chicago that he devoted a few pages to describing exactly how best to accomplish a carport such that groundwater wouldn't seep into the floor (remember: carport not garage, so the floor was a pretty intricate layering of gravel and sand).
Obviously, he still screwed up a lot. The Falling Water house is amazingly beautiful inside and out, and I love it more than I can really explain here as an architectural idea, but as a house it sinks slowly into the soft earth below. Still, if you look at his original blueprints he did take a lot of that into account, and some of the seepage is actually the result of the house aging, as well as additional problems post-construction. I don't know if, at the time, when nobody had attempted something like that, he could really have anticipated every problem.
Frank Gehry is much more a sculptor than an architect if you're expecting an architect to be a combination of a sculptor and an engineer, like they should. Many of his buildings are stricken with bizarre problems. Does anybody else remember the building of his (maybe it's the same one, now that I think of it) where a concave section of polished metal on the outer carapace, unbeknownst to everyone, was actually focused on a window of a building across the street. In the room with that window, the temperature was noticeably warmer than the rest of the building and was actually causing all kinds of havoc. That in particular, I'm not entirely sure that an engineer could really see it coming until the building was already built because the problem is so dependent on the particulars of the site and surroundings.
Long story short, take it easy on architects. Part of their job, like web designers, is to imagine things that may be ridiculously difficult to build.
Full disclosure: I quit architecture in school very early after finding out from an accomplished architect that most architects don't get to do any of the cool stuff until they become famous, and they have to be lucky to get there. I didn't feel lucky, so I studied art and computer science instead.
Nah it's not just you. I'm a guy and I seriously awww'd loud enough that the whole office took notice. It's seriously the most adorable thing I've read in a few days.
I don't understand this argument at all. There are circumstances under which I would be incredibly angry if someone was trying to reach me about something vital (like a life-or-death situation, one of my loved ones in danger, or something like that) and could not because of some asshole like you.
My father had cancer, and while he had cancer I was always on call, always available to hear any news about it whatsoever. During the final days it was all I could do not to just sit silently staring at my phone, waiting for news. I was polite, though. If I was in a theatre and an important call came through (on silent, mind you) I would leave the theatre and immediately call back. I know I am not the average case here but I'm also not extraordinary. Lots and lots and lots of people out there are smart and polite people who know how to responsibly use a cell phone. Don't block us out just because of the ignorant masses that just don't get it.
And you know what? You're living in 2007 now, so if you hear someone's cell phone go off then TOUGH F*CKING COOKIES. You can approach them politely and ask that they put their phone on silent or go outside, and if they're reasonable they'll understand that they're being a jerk and correct their behaviour (most people will have this reaction). If you don't have the guts to go walking up to someone and tell them that they're being annoying, then you should just sit and deal with it.
While it is questionable to make a device that is obviously a knockoff of the Wiimote, it is also wrong to place the blame 100% on Walmart or the manufacturer of the item for a situation in which the buyer did not properly research their purchase. Anyone who has done their research will be able to discern it from the real thing in seconds.
It's probably not parents that are going to get duped. Somewhere some kid is going to see this and yell "I want that!" over and over again until their parent caves, whether the parent is knowledgeable about these things or not. Whether it's walmart's fault or not it's still pretty underhanded to try to piggyback on someone else's brand recognition. That's how law suits get started!
GOOD. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to spend her life in prison. You can speculate about her innocence all you want but the fact of the matter is that she has been tried and through the due process of the law was convicted of murder. If she wanted to assert her innocence, the right thing to do would be to appeal, not to escape.
And it won't help anyone but to keep the employment of prison guards up. Do you know these mega-prisons have lobbyists now and that's where we got most of the push for mandatory sentences and 3 strikes and you are out?
Ummmm no. We have so many prisoners in our prisons, particularly in places like California, that it presents an environment that is horribly unsafe for prison workers and prisoners. The prison guard unions want an ideal prison population that will keep them employed but still alive, and that's just not there right now. Even in solitary confinement in these "mega-prisons" (I'm not sure which ones you're talking about...) the rooms are double and triple occupancy. They've already run out of room and I'm sure that the guards want to have a safer work environment to work in.
Also, letting murderers escape from prison is hardly a solution to the overcrowding problem.
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I just had the worst mental picture: the goatse guy riding horseback into battle. The Goatse Knight rides again!!!
While it may be a misfortune for him, it's a win for all of us and the legal system as a whole. I don't call that schadenfreude. I call it reason to celebrate!
omg me too!!! Ok. Feeling less crazy now.
LOL! The very idea of using wine to run things on windows is so absurd....
On a side note, I'd just like to point out that every major release of Mac OS (Tiger, Leopard, etc.) usually includes a minor update to the previous major release (see also: Mac OS 10.3.9 and Tiger) so that the old version is compatible with new apps that use the new version. Obviously there comes a certain point where apps just don't work anymore, but my point is that the once-per-year release cycle of Mac OS is a lot friendlier to this kind of use and this kind of development. It's MUCH easier for software devs to make minor changes to their apps for the little bumps in the road than it is for them to prepare major releases for the huuuuuuge and largely mysterious windows releases that happen only once in a blue moon (but are supposed to happen sooner). Not being (too much of) a fanboy; I'm just saying....
I dunno if this is a New Coke fiasco and they've got something up their sleeve or if this is a genuine fsck-up, but the whole Vista saga is just so sad....
yes that sounds right. The contacts could be a sort of chicken/egg thing though. In the spirit of Slashdot groupthink I'm inclined to give the man the benefit of the doubt and think maybe he just saw the light. In any case he's very critical of Greenpeace's methods nowadays and I can agree with that. What started as saving the whales has now devolved into a propaganda war against any "unnatural" technology no matter how many lives it might improve or even save. See also: GM foods. Do you really think starving African children care that golden rice was developed in a lab and not in nature? Think how many people could be fed if Greenpeace didnt keep lieing to governments about the dangers of GM grains....
I find it interesting that a couple of years ago one of the original founders of Greenpeace stepped forward in favour of nuclear power as an alternative to coal.
( Somebody have a link? )
New marketing idea: let's call it Freedom Software. Then everyone will use it or else they're with the terrorists!
You said it! Why is this even a congressional issue at all? I really hate how absolutely everything under the sun has suddenly become the purview of Congress under the guise of regulating interstate commerce.
The ESRB is the industry's attempt at self-regulation, and for right now it doesn't include the beaurocracy of Congress and that's a Good Thing(tm). Congress, on the other hand, is like King Midas, except everything they touch turns to red tape. I find it interesting that the same people who want to privatize everything are the ones who are freaking out about this. Why not just, as parents, pay attention to what your children are playing? If you've got a young child (like pre-high school), why would you buy them a game called "Manhunt" at all?
He said the human brain, which is comprised of millions and millions of neurons. Neurons themselves are pretty useless but put enough of them in one place, connected and pathed out over years and years of learning and practice, and they're a lot smarter than a hive of bees.
Holy crap now I'm even more depressed....
Or the episode of South Park where George Lucas and Steven Spielberg kept altering their movies, notably editing out all the guns and replacing them with walkie talkies in E.T..
was it snow crash?I don't think so...?
The more I read in this thread the more depressed I get. Sesame Street was already kind of in decline, from what I understand, by the time I was born ('83), but it was still a huge part of my childhood. I'd like to think that even though I saw cookie monster gorging on cookies and Oscar the Grouch living in a trash can, I've turned out okay.
As you can see, he is the most prolific of all slashdot users.
...Backdoor Boys more popular...I think the Village People's popularity peaked a long time ago. Seems like that'd be a lost cause.
But don't you know? It's one of the seven deadly sins: avarice. Gambling is seen by those who are religiously inclined as an attempt to predict the acts of God.
Seriously though I agree wholeheartedly. This could not be a moral issue or even a practical issue since there are so many common practices here that involve the same basic business of trying to determine the future for personal gain or personal protection (in the case of insurance). The only purpose of this bill is to ensure that the state gets a cut (by way of taxes) for all gambling that occurs in the state. This includes state-sponsored lotteries, and it's the reason why you can't run a good numbers racket in this decaying republic anymore.
Disclaimer: I make my living through online gambling.Pfft... Lucky....
I'm glad someone else had the balls to say that. This isn't the usual sort of grey area political issue that you can see one way or another pretty easily: it's black and white. On one side of that border is a runaway executive branch that has completely forgotten all their responsibilities to the citizens of the United States, the Constitution, and the whole world. On the other side is a population of people who are scared shitless and doesn't even know why anymore.
When the telcos acquiesced to the government's illegal demands, they should have known that it was illegal, and even the government has to play by the rules until they make new ones. They deserve no immunity and neither do the people who ordered this.
Yeah I spotted that post shortly after I posted that comment :-[. Guess I've gotta start paying more attention.
Are you in the US? President Carter issued an executive order during his term prohibiting recycling or reuse of nuclear fuel. It sounds pretty stupid but at the time his reasoning was that it would limit the proliferation of nuclear weapons. Another executive order reversing that one would be really nice, seeing as countries like France have developed very effective methods for recycling their waste.
You should read some of the books Frank Lloyd Wright wrote. Can't find a link for you on Amazon but he wrote a couple of books in which he really breaks down a lot of his design decisions and, at least for a lot of his houses, he did take a lot of engineering questions into account that were genuinely ahead of his time. In particular, there's a house here in Chicago that he devoted a few pages to describing exactly how best to accomplish a carport such that groundwater wouldn't seep into the floor (remember: carport not garage, so the floor was a pretty intricate layering of gravel and sand).
Obviously, he still screwed up a lot. The Falling Water house is amazingly beautiful inside and out, and I love it more than I can really explain here as an architectural idea, but as a house it sinks slowly into the soft earth below. Still, if you look at his original blueprints he did take a lot of that into account, and some of the seepage is actually the result of the house aging, as well as additional problems post-construction. I don't know if, at the time, when nobody had attempted something like that, he could really have anticipated every problem.
Frank Gehry is much more a sculptor than an architect if you're expecting an architect to be a combination of a sculptor and an engineer, like they should. Many of his buildings are stricken with bizarre problems. Does anybody else remember the building of his (maybe it's the same one, now that I think of it) where a concave section of polished metal on the outer carapace, unbeknownst to everyone, was actually focused on a window of a building across the street. In the room with that window, the temperature was noticeably warmer than the rest of the building and was actually causing all kinds of havoc. That in particular, I'm not entirely sure that an engineer could really see it coming until the building was already built because the problem is so dependent on the particulars of the site and surroundings.
Long story short, take it easy on architects. Part of their job, like web designers, is to imagine things that may be ridiculously difficult to build.
Full disclosure: I quit architecture in school very early after finding out from an accomplished architect that most architects don't get to do any of the cool stuff until they become famous, and they have to be lucky to get there. I didn't feel lucky, so I studied art and computer science instead.
It's a pun. "Above". Get it?
Nah it's not just you. I'm a guy and I seriously awww'd loud enough that the whole office took notice. It's seriously the most adorable thing I've read in a few days.
But I do pwn them . . . regularly.
Oh that's right. I just went there.
I don't understand this argument at all. There are circumstances under which I would be incredibly angry if someone was trying to reach me about something vital (like a life-or-death situation, one of my loved ones in danger, or something like that) and could not because of some asshole like you.
My father had cancer, and while he had cancer I was always on call, always available to hear any news about it whatsoever. During the final days it was all I could do not to just sit silently staring at my phone, waiting for news. I was polite, though. If I was in a theatre and an important call came through (on silent, mind you) I would leave the theatre and immediately call back. I know I am not the average case here but I'm also not extraordinary. Lots and lots and lots of people out there are smart and polite people who know how to responsibly use a cell phone. Don't block us out just because of the ignorant masses that just don't get it.
And you know what? You're living in 2007 now, so if you hear someone's cell phone go off then TOUGH F*CKING COOKIES. You can approach them politely and ask that they put their phone on silent or go outside, and if they're reasonable they'll understand that they're being a jerk and correct their behaviour (most people will have this reaction). If you don't have the guts to go walking up to someone and tell them that they're being annoying, then you should just sit and deal with it.
Probably so that two-letter TLDs like .it and .us and .co.uk still work.
It's probably not parents that are going to get duped. Somewhere some kid is going to see this and yell "I want that!" over and over again until their parent caves, whether the parent is knowledgeable about these things or not. Whether it's walmart's fault or not it's still pretty underhanded to try to piggyback on someone else's brand recognition. That's how law suits get started!
GOOD. She was convicted of murder and sentenced to spend her life in prison. You can speculate about her innocence all you want but the fact of the matter is that she has been tried and through the due process of the law was convicted of murder. If she wanted to assert her innocence, the right thing to do would be to appeal, not to escape.
And it won't help anyone but to keep the employment of prison guards up. Do you know these mega-prisons have lobbyists now and that's where we got most of the push for mandatory sentences and 3 strikes and you are out?Ummmm no. We have so many prisoners in our prisons, particularly in places like California, that it presents an environment that is horribly unsafe for prison workers and prisoners. The prison guard unions want an ideal prison population that will keep them employed but still alive, and that's just not there right now. Even in solitary confinement in these "mega-prisons" (I'm not sure which ones you're talking about...) the rooms are double and triple occupancy. They've already run out of room and I'm sure that the guards want to have a safer work environment to work in.
Also, letting murderers escape from prison is hardly a solution to the overcrowding problem.